Summary
Kresten Krab Thorup and Robert Virding discuss the origins of Erlang, the state of the Erlang VM, integrating native code with Erlang etc. Also: the challenges of running Erjang/Erlang on the JVM.

Bio
Robert Virding worked at Ericsson and was one of the initial Erlang design group. Robert now works for the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) in a modelling and simulation group where he mainly works with computer games. He contributes to the Erlang community and has written a number of books and articles on Erlang.
Kresten Krab Thorup works for Trifork, and is the creator of Erjang.

About the conference
The Erlang Factory is an event that focuses on Erlang - the computer language that was designed to support distributed, fault-tolerant, soft-realtime applications with requirements for high availability and high concurrency. The main part of the Factory is the conference - a two-day collection of focused subject tracks with an enormous opportunity to meet the best minds in Erlang and network with experts in all its uses and applications.

Bio
Thomas Enebo has been a practitioner of Java for over a decade and he is the co-lead of the JRuby project. Thomas has also been happily using Ruby since 2001. In addition to working on JRuby, Tom is interested in improving the state of alternative languages on the Java Virtual Machine. Tom is employed working on JRuby full time at Engine Yard.

About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

Summary In this talk from FutureRuby Adam Blum shows Rhodes, an open source Ruby-based framework for building locally executing apps with access to device features for all major smartphone devices.

Bio Adam Blum is CEO of Rhomobile , the open mobile framework company. He is a longtime founder/CTO/VP of Engineering of several successful startups in the web services and mobile spaces (Commerce One, Systinet, Good, Mobio). He is also an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University and advisor to several other software companies.

About the conference FutureRuby isn't a Ruby conference, but a conference for Rubyists. This is a call to order - a congress of the curious characters that drew us to this community in the first place. We have a singular opportunity to express a long-term vision, a future where Ruby drives creativity and prosperity without being dampened by partisan politics.

Bio Ulf Wiger is the CTO of Erlang Training and Consulting. He has worked for Ericsson and was Chief Designer of the AXD 301 development. At nearly 2 million lines of Erlang code, AXD 301 is the most complex system ever built in Erlang. In recent years, Ulf has been involved in several products based on the AXD 301 architecture, and has been an active member of the Open Source Erlang community.

About the conference QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:22:08 GMThttp://www.bestechvideos.com/2009/07/16/multicore-programming-in-erlangBestVideoshttp://www.bestechvideos.com/2009/07/16/multicore-programming-in-erlangRuby VMs: A Comparisonhttp://www.bestechvideos.com/2009/03/16/ruby-vms-a-comparison

Summary
A look at the different Ruby virtual machines (JRuby, MagLev, IronRuby, Rubinius, MacRuby) and how to choose what fits best within the enterprise.

Bio
Jason Seifer is a web developer and 1/2 of RailsEnvy.com, where he helps produce a weekly news podcast for Ruby and Ruby on Rails developers. His programming interests include Ruby, Rails, Javascript, full text search, and Objective-C.

About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:49:14 GMThttp://www.bestechvideos.com/2009/03/16/ruby-vms-a-comparisonBestVideoshttp://www.bestechvideos.com/2009/03/16/ruby-vms-a-comparisonJohn Lam on IronRuby, Microsoft and Open Sourcehttp://www.bestechvideos.com/2008/10/31/john-lam-on-ironruby-microsoft-and-open-source

Summary
In this interview from RubyFringe, John Lam talks about his work on IronRuby and how Microsoft is approaching Open Source software development.

Bio
John Lam is Program Manager on the Dynamic Language Runtime team at Microsoft. He created RubyCLR, and is now working on the team that is creating IronRuby, Microsoft's implementation of Ruby.

Summary
At RubyFringe John Lam talks about his path to dynamic languages, some of the problems of making IronRuby run fast, and how the DLR helps with implementing languages.

Bio
John Lam John works on the IronRuby project at Microsoft. IronRuby is an Open Source implementation of Ruby that runs real Ruby programs. John and his family recently relocated to Seattle from Toronto and they're loving the left coast lifestyle.

About the conference
RubyFringe is an avant-garde conference for developers that are excited about emerging Ruby projects and technologies. They're mounting a unique and eccentric gathering of the people and projects that are driving things forward in our community.

Summary
In this interview, Avi Bryant talks about the Smalltalk web framework Seaside, DabbleDB, using Smalltalk images for persistence instead of an RDBMs, GemStone and more.

Bio
Avi Bryant is the co-CEO of Dabble DB, a Vancouver startup focused on web-based data management and collaboration tools. He is the author of the Seaside web application framework, and is active in the open source Squeak Smalltalk community.

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Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:27:39 GMThttp://www.bestechvideos.com/2008/07/22/avi-bryant-on-dabbledb-smalltalk-and-persistenceBestVideoshttp://www.bestechvideos.com/2008/07/22/avi-bryant-on-dabbledb-smalltalk-and-persistenceEvan Phoenix on Rubiniushttp://www.bestechvideos.com/2008/06/28/evan-phoenix-on-rubinius

Summary
Evan Phoenix discusses Rubinius, a modern Ruby VM loosely based on the Smalltalk-80 architecture. The goal is to build a fast, efficient VM with the latest research in dynamic language implementations

Bio
Evan Phoenix is main developer behind the Rubinius project, a modern Ruby VM loosely based on the Smalltalk-80 architecture. He is currently employed by Engine Yard to continue to lead the development of this next generation Ruby VM. Evan blogs at http://blog.fallingsnow.net/.

Summary
In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Chet Haase discusses Java SE 6, Update N/Consumer JRE, the goals and feature set for Java FX (e.g. media support, scene graph, HTML and mobile devices), and the current set of possible features for JDK 7 such as Java FX features, Swing-related JSRs (295 and 296), transparent/shaped windows, tiered compilation, closures and invoke-dynamic bytecode.

Bio
Chet Haase is a Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) client architect in the Java Desktop Group. He works with the client teams to make Java technology on the desktop more productive, useful, and successful. This means tracking desktop application development in general and making sure that Java software meets and hopefully exceeds developer requirements.

About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community.QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:51:42 GMThttp://www.bestechvideos.com/2008/06/28/chet-haase-on-java-fx-update-n-and-jdk-7BestVideoshttp://www.bestechvideos.com/2008/06/28/chet-haase-on-java-fx-update-n-and-jdk-7Avi Bryant on MagLev and GemStonehttp://www.bestechvideos.com/2008/06/14/avi-bryant-on-maglev-and-gemstone

Summary
In this interview, Avi Bryant talks about working on GemStone's MagLev, a Ruby implementation built on the GemStone S64 VM. Avi explains the reasons for MagLev, the merits of GemStone's persistence and distribution features, and the future with multiple Ruby implementations.

Bio
Avi Bryant is the co-CEO of Dabble DB, a Vancouver startup focused on web-based data management and collaboration tools. He is the author of the Seaside web application framework, and is active in the open source Squeak Smalltalk community.

Bio
Adrian Colyer is the Chief Technology Officer for Interface21, the company behind the Spring Framework. He provides direction and oversees development for the products in the Spring Portfolio. Adrian is the leader of the AspectJ project at Eclipse.org, and the founder of the AJDT and Spring OSGi projects.

About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community.QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.